Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nonetheless , having surveyed the yeomanry at length , Smith too reached the point beyond which he possessed little specific knowledge of the people under discussion , unless he felt that there was little that could usefully be said about those who had ‘ neither voice nor authority in the commonwealth , and no account is made of them but onelie to be ruled , not to rule others ’ . |
| 2 | Although there is little specific mention of the lifeboat service the sea is never any further from the book than it is from the history of the town of Blackpool . |
| 3 | ‘ Do you have to wear that bloody garment in the house ? |
| 4 | Anyway , what had it all amounted to ? scorned Alice , triumphantly examining that too-pale , anxious , strained face , with beads of sweat on the forehead : printing fucking garbage for this or that bloody faction in the fascist bloody Labour Party , printing dish-water newspapers for bloody liberals and revisionists , sucking up to shitty politicians on the make and bourgeois trash anyway doomed to be swept into the dustbins of history ? |
| 5 | ‘ Gallagher made Luke confess in front of about twenty witnesses — that bloody rabble from the pub and the cottages . ’ |
| 6 | At first sight it is absurd to propose that Islamic socialization of the economy required the nihil obstat of everyone 's mother-in-law . |
| 7 | The SNM is a ragged band of fighters with little political ideology beyond the expulsion of President Barre 's forces from northern Somalia and the overthrow of his 20-year-old government . |
| 8 | There is that admittedly-dwindling sector of the population which still smokes and those who make their living from the cigarette industry . |
| 9 | The random-walk model described in Section 6.2 is based on the assumption that each possible state of the system ( the stream flow direction in the example in Section 6.2 ) is equally probable . |
| 10 | A set of anaphor resolution rules , based closely on those of Sidner ( 1979a ) , were applied to each possible anaphor in the reading . |
| 11 | The fundamental rule described in Chapter 2 ensures that each possible path in the tree which matches the input string will be followed up . |
| 12 | The character recogniser for the handwriting analyser ( Wright , 1989 ) produces a ranked list of ( up to 6 ) character candidates for each possible node in the character lattice . |
| 13 | The book is non-mathematical and assumes little technical knowledge on the part of the reader . |
| 14 | A few minutes later they were starting up Heymouth Brae , the road that connected Heymouth with the summit and world beyond . |
| 15 | However , Swallow was not optimistic regarding the prospects for the latter , arguing that administrative confusion on the border with the Czech Republic now made it easier to ship kit to Slovakia from a third country . |
| 16 | Erm we feel that er in that circumstance the proposals should be retrospective erm and we find the Good Committees er comment on this singularly unhelpful , in that all they say is we do not accept that retrospective implementation of the compensation scheme is appropriate full stop . |
| 17 | That wondersome facility of the young . |
| 18 | Time now to run , to fix her eyes on that tow-headed lad with the green scarf around his stringy , chicken 's neck and never lose sight of him , no matter who got in her way , to catch him and crucify him if necessary to find out where her bag had gone . |
| 19 | Its working past laid the foundations of a good beef breed and it was improved for that specific purpose during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , by selection rather than crossing ; it was said ( rather coldly ) to ‘ die well ’ , that is , to yield a lot of meat in the best cuts . |
| 20 | Youth provision is , is a county council responsibility not a city council responsibility although for your information Mr , without the er zodiac youth centre grant in the ninety one , ninety two figures er , two hundred and thirty nine thousand one hundred and sixty six pounds were put in by the city council into that s , into that specific area in the Humberstone ward and the amount that was put in there in this financial year was approximately the same , but the reason being that there is no mar more money available is because hundreds of thousand of pounds were cut out of youth and community facilities that should have been provided by this city council by the Tory budget which this council approved last February . |
| 21 | Each mobile electron in the system is represented by a point in k space such that the vector from the origin to the point is proportional to the electron 's momentum , and so represents both the magnitude and direction of the momentum . |
| 22 | Not surprisingly , Apple Computer Inc does n't think too much of that absurd ruling by the US International Trade Commission that Japanese vendors are dumping active matrix displays in the US : it says the ruling made no sense but vowed that the battle was not yet over — ‘ This was an ‘ Alice in Wonderland ’ decision , it defies logic , ’ Apple 's director of government law Jim Burger told Reuter , noting that the only company actually making the things in the US wants the tariff lifted . |
| 23 | He said : ’ Sterling looks set to be masticated by EMUs , ERMs and ECUs before being made fodder for that monetary successor to the Panzer , the Deutsches Bundesbank . ’ |
| 24 | My forest of trees could indeed have been turned into a forest of nerves , with each jagged branch poking into that guilty skull like the accusing fingers of God 's darker or more vengeful angels . |
| 25 | He said that the new system would give each working person in the colony a vote , thereby ending the privileged status of current constituency members . |
| 26 | It thus seems that there has been very little geological reworking of the Mercurian surface since the apparent planet-wide obliteration of most craters at the beginning . |
| 27 | It was the first time she had been into the city since that awful night of the cockfight back in February . |
| 28 | Its potential as a subversive force lurks in the parental consciousness along with other possible subversives — such as ‘ that awful boy down the road ’ or ‘ the noisy hooligans who congregate with their motor bikes in the square ’ ; and no respectable parent would give ‘ house-room ’ to them . |
| 29 | I was very surprised to see Strange play that awful shot at the 17th . |
| 30 | I was on my own now , faced with that half-obliterated turn at the V-point of the side gorge where water pouring over the track was eating away at the surface . |